The Loga European-style landscape park (Staraya Stanitsa)

 park, landscaping, open 24 hours, 2012_construction

Opened in September 2012.
Operates 24 hours.
Recognized by the press as the best landscape park of the Rostov Region.

Named after the Logovaya gully, in the floodplain of which it is located.
The name comes from the word ‘log’ — a gully, ravine (loga is plural).

European-style park on the site of the former farm dump.
Initially occupied an area of 16 hectares, later expanded to 22 hectares.

The creator — widely known in the Rostov region businessman— director of a large paint and varnish company LLC Prestige Holding in Staraya Stanitsa.and philanthropist Sergei Kushnarenko; he was awarded the medal "For Valorous Labor for the benefit of the Don region", the pectoral cross "For Merit to the Cossacks of Russia". At the meeting of the Kamensky District Assembly of Deputies the people's elected representatives unanimously decided to award him the title "Honorary Citizen of Kamensky District".

The idea of creating a park was born in Sergei Kushnarenko's mind back in the 1990s. When the local authorities began to charge for garbage disposal, the picturesque Logovaya gully was simply piled with household waste. A real spontaneous dump was formed. Sergey Aleksandrovich decided to remedy the situation. At first, together with the workers of his enterprise, they removed garbage, cut down deadwood, and on weekends they organized picnics with kebabs in nature. Then came the first gazebo and two paths — from the author's house to his son's house. Over time, the territory gradually became greener. Sergei himself thought up how to organize this or that site.

The park features over a hundred sculptures, a rabbit hole, crooked mirrors, a rock garden, bridges and pavilions, a water mill, a river, a lake, waterfalls, live deer, swans, peacocks, and many species of trees and flowers.

Large-scale construction of facilities within the park is underway.
The park is strictly guarded, it is forbidden to walk dogs here.
According to press reviews, it is considered the best free park in the Rostov region.


The park is an example of modern garden and park art.
For its picturesque appearance the park was given the unofficial local name "Little Switzerland".
In 2013 the construction of the new Orthodox Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh began on the territory of the park, which was completed in 2015.


Every day 40 people work in the park, about 1 million rubles are spent on salaries and maintenance of the park every month, and the entrance to the park is absolutely free.


In the near future it is planned to build a large ethnographic center - a Cossack stanitsa - as it was from the XV to the XXI century - to show visitors how the Cossacks developed on the Don, what the kurens were in different epochs. And in each kuren will be presented different kinds of crafts and folk handicrafts: somewhere there will be weaving and knitting, somewhere pottery and blacksmithing. A market place will be reconstructed. It is also planned to actively promote the park in winter - the largest tubing track in Russia will be built.

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